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Phil – you spoke about 9/11 a lot in the Q&A earlier. I have read a lot around how Millennials being more open mental health awareness is because of our shared experience of 9/11 – we watched a tragedy in real time. H: What you say there about how we as a society are a lot more open to mental illness. At some point, James takes that step off into the abyss. I read a very believable and engaging protagonist who had an accessible well of grief, anxiety and depression which so many people, especially in the last couple of years, talk about now and we see how prevalent it is across every demographic. Maybe seek help.’ Or do you go the whole way like James does and that’s where it really hit home for me. Instead of sitting there and tolerating his anxiety or his grief he tries to cure it, tries to relate it to something else and as Phil says, that fork in the road is that point where you might say ‘Alright, I’ve done what I can – I am going to try something else. ![]() I think James’ character in the film does the wrong thing. And as you live with it, it impacts less and less and you find yourself tolerating it more. And it’s a fundamental block of CBT where, instead of running away from something - its not even the fight or flight thing - you just live with it. Giles Edwards (Producer): There is a concept in anxiety therapy, which a lot of people have gone through, called Tolerating Anxiety. It is the fork in the road for someone who is dealing with grief which is ‘Am I going to stare this in the face and try to deal with it or am I going to distract myself with something that might provide a meaning that isn’t necessarily there.’ Instead of facing and dealing in what that grief is and the finality of it, instead he decides to direct his focus to find pattern or meaning where there isn’t any. You can do that legitimately or you do what I think James does, develop a coping mechanism to distract. ![]() And like any other kind of trauma, I think you need pattern or meaning in order to get passed it. Phil Drinkwater (Co-Screenwriter): Yeah 100%. Is that your experience of how people deal with dramatic life experiences? Finding answers somewhere else? Hannah (Interviewer): James, the main character, played by Harry Shum Jr, is dealing with his grief finds solace in investigating the conspiracy theory of the broadcast signal intrusions. You can read my review of Broadcast Signal Intrusion here ![]() At Celluloid Screams 2021, I grabbed a chat with Co-Screenwriter of Broadcast Signal Intrusion Phil Drinkwater and Producer Giles Edwards understanding the influences of the story and how the film evokes late 90s nostalgia.
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